Microsoft isn't positioning the XBox as a game console or a PC but as a device that hooks up to your TV and gets to be a central fixture of your /home/. The tablet is portable, but it's not part of your home because it's not bound to it. The living room is, though. The TV is. The XBone is.

What they're doing actually makes SENSE. PCs aren't cool anymore but something that augments your TV is (even if it ultimately... is the same thing).

It's a (somewhat limited) PC that they're marketing as something better than a PC by marketing it as something DIFFERENT than a PC.

... This is the stupidest fucking thing and it could seriously work completely how they're intending.

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"Xbox One will penalise players who harass others while online and reward gamers who behave.

Griefers and trolls will be identified by a high-profile reputation score, made "just as visible" as your Gamerscore, the company has said."

There is absolutely no way that this will be abused, ever.

I'm betting that at least 50% of people who play on Live will down vote their opponents reputations just for being beaten because "clearly the person must have used exploits to beat me." Eventually having a crappy gamer reputation will mean that you are an awesome player. And thus the XBone will penalize people for being good at games. Awesome! :p

Microsoft isn't positioning the XBox as a game console or a PC but as a device that hooks up to your TV and gets to be a central fixture of your /home/. The tablet is portable, but it's not part of your home because it's not bound to it. The living room is, though. The TV is. The XBone is.

What they're doing actually makes SENSE. PCs aren't cool anymore but something that augments your TV is (even if it ultimately... is the same thing).

It's a (somewhat limited) PC that they're marketing as something better than a PC by marketing it as something DIFFERENT than a PC.

... This is the stupidest fucking thing and it could seriously work completely how they're intending.

At least until Hulu and other online content providers start charging you on top of what you'd normally pay because of their software that detects whether you're trying to view them from something other than a PC like they did with Google TV (which is why nobody has Google TV).

Then again, with the way cable companies have been cutting services and ratcheting up prices all over the place these days, it feels like we're in an arms race to see which shit lord will be king of shit mountain.

"Xbox One will penalise players who harass others while online and reward gamers who behave.

Griefers and trolls will be identified by a high-profile reputation score, made "just as visible" as your Gamerscore, the company has said."

There is absolutely no way that this will be abused, ever.

I'm betting that at least 50% of people who play on Live will down vote their opponents reputations just for being beaten because "clearly the person must have used exploits to beat me." Eventually having a crappy gamer reputation will mean that you are an awesome player. And thus the XBone will penalize people for being good at games. Awesome! :p

I don't trash talk and I barely use my mic. I don't taunt and I don't act like a dbag. Yet last time I checked, I literally have a 24% approval rating. You are surely correct.

Some comment from Ars:"Good thing the new Kinect can recognise individual fingers; I can show them one. "

You unplug it and it stays on and at that point you just leave the house 'cause y'all KNOW that thing's haunted.

Come home from school, talk to your kids, little Jimmy's all like, "MOMMY MOMMY THE MAN IN THE XBOX TOLD ME TO BURN THE NEIGHBORS' HOUSE DOWN."

Press the DISC DRIVE button. The USB ports start spewin' out BLOOD.

No it isn't possessed if it shows any of those symptoms, you see in truth they gave the XBONE an onboard power source so that you can keep gaming even when the power is out! And so that the secret satellite data uplink can't be interrupted mid transfer.

Jimmy telling you that the man in the XBONE told him to burn the neighbor's house down just means that he pwned a 30 year old on LIVE who took it badly.

The blood just means you chose poorly when deciding where to hide the body. >.>